Subject: RE: Blank screen
To: 'Mattias Karlsson' <keihan@sergei.cc>
From: Collin Baillie <Collin.Baillie@world.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/19/2002 10:06:54
Mattias,

Could it be the card is putting out a sync signal that the monitor doesn't
handle? 
Is the setting still "console graphics" ??
What model is the card? I have a TGA2 (ZXLp-E3) which stops my 600au from
even posting! But you're saying you're getting a graphics console :\
Apparently the newer Miata SRM doesn't particularly like TGA's.. it's
looking for a VGA card. Maybe this is the issue?

Collin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mattias Karlsson [mailto:keihan@sergei.cc]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 June 2002 10:05 AM
To: Collin Baillie
Cc: bad bob; port-alpha@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Blank screen


Yes, really strange.

``console graphics'' was the setting when I first got the machine.

So with that setting it didn't work... :/


Regards,
Mattias.


Collin Baillie wrote:
> From your dmesg, it looks like your PWS and indeed NetBSD support the
card.
> I think what you need to do is (either on the serial console or the
> "graphical" console) type:
> 
> 
>>>>show console
>>>
> 
> It'll probably be set to serial. If that's the case you can try:
> 
> 
>>>>set console graphics
>>>
> 
> This should tell it to output console stuff to the tga card instead of the
> serial port. To find a list of options for the console setting try:
> 
> 
>>>>set console ?
>>>
> 
> It should complain about an invalid setting and list possible valid
> settings.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Collin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattias Karlsson [mailto:keihan@sergei.cc]
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 June 2002 6:47 AM
> To: bad bob
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Blank screen
> 
> 
> bad bob wrote:
> 
>>did you try serial port?
> 
> 
> 
> Worked! I would be nice to have it on my other monitor tho, seems
> this machine has a tga card, is this the reason?
> 
> If I replaced the tga with a vga compatible it would give me my
> screen back, right?
> 
> And what about this ?
> 
> WARNING: can't figure what device matches "SCSI 0 207 0 0 0 0 0"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> DMESG:
> ~~~~~~
> 
> [ netbsd ELF symbol table not valid ]
> [ no symbol table formats found ]
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
>      The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>      The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> NetBSD 1.5.2 (INSTALL) #26: Sat Aug 18 10:04:15 MEST 2001
>      he@albatross.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/INSTALL
> Digital Personal WorkStation 500au, 500MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> total memory = 256 MB
> (1896 KB reserved for PROM, 254 MB used by NetBSD)
> avail memory = 228 MB
> using 1639 buffers containing 13112 KB of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21164A-0 (unknown minor type 0)
> cpu0: Architecture extensions: 1<BWX>
> cia0 at mainbus0: DECchip 2117x Core Logic Chipset (Pyxis), pass 1
> cia0: extended capabilities: 1<BWEN>
> cia0: using BWX for PCI config access
> pci0 at cia0 bus 0
> pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
> de0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0
> de0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 0
> de0: DEC 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0
> de0: address 00:00:f8:75:fa:a8
> de0: enabling 100baseTX port
> sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: vendor 0x1080 product 0xc693 (rev. 0x00)
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Cypress 82C693 IDE Controller (rev.
0x00)
> pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
> pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
> pciide0: disabling primary channel (no drives)
> pciide1 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: Cypress 82C693 IDE Controller (rev.
0x00)
> pciide1: hardware does not support DMA
> pciide1: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
> atapibus0 at pciide1 channel 0
> cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6202B, b\221\311\373\000, 
> 1110> type 5 cdrom removable
> cd0: 32-bit data port
> cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> pciide1: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
> cd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4
> vendor 0x1080 product 0xc693 (USB serial bus, interface 0x10) at pci0 
> dev 7 function 3 not configured
> tga0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: TGA2 pass 2, board type T8-02
> tga0: 1280 x 1024, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
> tga0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 8
> wsdisplay0 at tga0
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0: vendor 0x1011 product 0x0024 (rev. 0x02)
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
> isp0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0
> isp0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 3
> isp0: Ultra Mode Capable
> isp0: Board Revision 1040B, loaded F/W Revision 4.66.0
> isp0: Last F/W revision was 5.57.1
> scsibus0 at isp0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
> isa0 at sio0
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> com0: console
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
> vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff
> wsdisplay1 at vga0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ1CC-BA (C) DEC, 883F> SCSI2 
> 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 4091 MB, 3708 cyl, 20 head, 113 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8380080 sectors
> sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <DEC, RZ1CC-BA (C) DEC, 883F> SCSI2 
> 0/direct fixed
> sd1: 4091 MB, 3708 cyl, 20 head, 113 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8380080 sectors
> md0: internal 4650K image area
> WARNING: can't figure what device matches "SCSI 0 207 0 0 0 0 0"
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> WARNING: clock gained 4883 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> root file system type: ffs


-- 
Mattias Karlsson
Mattias.Karlsson@sergei.cc
SysAdm, http://www.sergei.cc